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Meteorite Times Magazine A Grand Meteorite from a Grand House by Martin Horejsi
The Grand Meteorite. At over 1500kg, the only thing more impressive than the residents of Casas Grandes moving the meteorite is the reason why they did it. However, that missing link of information can only be speculated upon.
Of note on this slice are 1) the obvious specimen number painted on an external (aka crusted) edge, and the border where the etch is lighter. A common practice in the past was to mask the rim of a slice so the intended etching was encircled with unetched or lightly etched surface.
The specimen identification number painted on this slice is from the Helsinki Museum in Finland. The style of a blue background with white digits is like a fingerprint. No mistaking where this slice spent time.
A painted specimen number is made even better when it comes with the appropriate paperwork. In this case, a nicely printed specimen card with matching ID number provides a deeper collection context rarely available these days.
A historical image taken from Tassin’s article. The large etched slice of Casas Grandes highlights a wonderful world the original finders of this iron could never even dream of.
Two more views of my etched slice showing both sides. The fully etched side, in my opinion, was etched much later than the side containing the rimming. You can easily see the difference in etch quality as well. The longer the acid remains on the slice, the deeper and more contrasty the etch. But passing a theoretical point of no return, you can ruin a perfectly good slice by dissolving away too much material.
It’s fun to consider what was going through the minds of the ancients who first brought this massive iron into captivity. Even though we are many centuries away from the people of Casas Grandes, the iron meteorite that bears the same name is a showpiece in the Smithsonian’s museum display ogled by thousands of people each year. So as we move together into yet another year, take a moment to say thanks to those who walked before us preserving the magical stones and irons we so love. If it weren’t for their dedication and sacrifice, so much of what inspires us today would be lost forever. Until next time.
Meteorite Times Magazine The UCLA Meteorite Gallery by James Tobin I got an email that there was to be a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony at UCLA for the new Meteorite Gallery. It was taking place the next day. So I got my camera out and charged a couple batteries and put about 50 gigabytes of SD cards in the camera bag and rearranged my schedule. It was the opportunity to finally get to meet a few people who over the years have been really helpful in characterizing meteorites for me and the business. I could actually thank them in person. Friday afternoon traffic up in West LA is always a nightmare and they are working on the freeway so I gave myself plenty of time and it took quite a bit of it to get there. But I did arrive early enough to walk around a little and get the self tour. I saw some equipment through widows in doors. I really just was snooping around. I saw the geological maps and charts lining the walls and thought “I studied this stuff back in the paleolithic.” I went up to the forth floor and past Dr. Rubin’s office. Then a couple minutes later actually came around a corner and saw him. I greeted him and walked for a minute down the hall with him. Just before a big event is not the time to have a chat.
Dr. Alan Rubin enjoying a moment at the reception after the grand opening I always feel a little out of place at events with lots of dignitaries and I was really hoping that there would be someone that I knew at this event. I was there to cover it as a journalist, but it is more fun if someone is there to talk to. I made my way to the meeting room a few minutes early and picked up my name tag from the table where they were already printed up waiting. Clipped it on and entered the room. John Wasson was there and I reintroduced myself to him. We had spoken years ago but only once. He too was off in a moment to prepare for the ceremony. I had seen Nick Gessler walking in the hall earlier but had not greeted him yet. As I was thinking that he might be the only person I really knew at the event Jason Utas and Michelle Myers came in. Jason is a student at UCLA and working in the department now. He is clearly having fun and enjoying learning to use the equipment.
Michelle Myers and Jason Utas at the Grand Opening of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. After several speeches and introductions it was time to move to the Meteorite Gallery and behold what wonders they had decided to bring out of the darkness of old cabinets and into the light of display cases. I am a sucker as most readers know for anything Meteor Crater related. UCLA has another of those wonderful early Canyon Diablos that were sent around the world in the first few decades after the crater was recognized. Their specimen is called the Clark Meteorite as it was a member of the Clark Library that they were given decades ago. UCLA has had the Clark Meteorite since 1934 which is about the same length that Griffith Observatory and The Natural History Museum have had theirs. It is the centerpiece right now resting on a low stand in the middle of the Gallery. Weighing in at 357 pounds it is a beautiful Canyon Diablo the only touch meteorite so far in the Gallery.
50,000 years ago an asteroid slammed into what would later be central Arizona creating famous Meteor Crater. The Clark Meteorite seen at the UCLA Meteorite Gallery is a very nice naturally sculptured piece of iron from that impact event. The UCLA Meteorite Gallery is dedicated to providing information and education more than any other museum I have been too. Usually you will only see the name of the specimen perhaps the type and maybe if you are lucky the weight. At the UCLA Meteorite Gallery you get much more information. You get to learn how the different types of meteorites relate to one another and about their places of origin and the parent bodies where they formed.
The UCLA Meteorite Gallery offers a rich learning experience with much more in-depth information about the meteorites then usually seen in museums. The display cases are arranged mostly by meteorite family. The Carbonaceous in one and the Differentiated in another. The Chondrites are in another and so forth. There is one case devoted to the meteorites that were donated to the UCLA collection by Arlene and Ted Schlazer. It is also where visitors will find the wonderful back-lit displays of several pallasites.
Etched Iron Meteorites, Mesosiderites and Pallasites are the main feature of the display case containing the donations by Arlene and Ted Schlazer. I guess it is time to personalize the visit to the gallery. After all I don’t want to show
you everything here. There is a case devoted to California meteorites. I have several type specimens residing at UCLA in the permanent collection. One of them is a California find that was classified by Dr. Rubin. It is small and old and unless they create a display case devoted to weather beaten and ugly meteorites it will never see the light of day. But, it is always fun to stand in front of a case containing California meteorites. Hunting meteorites with my friends especially Paul Harris has been some of the most enjoyable times in the desert of my life. And as I stood in front of the California Meteorites display case I saw one that really caught my eye. The specimen is El Mirage Dry Lake 004. I will always remember the day that Paul found the first ever meteorite to be recovered on El Mirage. That meteorite is EMDL 001 and that little baby was classified at UCLA and a piece of it will reside there forever.
El Mirage Dry Lake 004 is just one of about 250 meteorites that have been found in California and UCLA has been an important place for the research and analysis done on them. I got a chance to speak with Jason and with Nick and did not feel too by myself during the afternoon. By the time I left after seeing all the meteorites and especially the California display case I was feeling again like a tiny part of the much bigger community of the meteorite world.
Just as a final note I loved the impact melt display case. I had a beautiful impact melt classified about two years ago by Dr. Rubin. That story is in the back issues of Meteorite Times. It is NWA 7347. No it is not on display either, but a huge slice of Chico is. I thought I had two nice pieces of Chico each with the core hole. But, the piece at the UCLA Meteorite Gallery is from way deeper in the Chico mass and numerous times larger than mine. For me nothing beats a really nice impact melt meteorite.
Impact melt meteorites are a type that record a more violent history in their rock. Chico is a beautiful impact melt that needs to be seen up close so make sure to see it when you visit the Gallery. The Meteorite Gallery at ULCA is open week days except holidays from 9 AM to 4PM and is located on the third floor of the Geology Building in Room 3697. They have created a great website about the gallery which can be found at http://www.meteorites.ucla.edu/gallery/
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Meteorite Times Magazine San Bernardino Wash (L5) by Robert Verish
San Bernardino Wash (L5) An apparent strewn-field in the California Mojave Desert.
High up into the Pinto Mountains there is a surprisingly flat valley that is drained by the San Bernardino Wash. Ironically, this wash isn’t in San Bernardino County. It is located just south of the county line in Riverside County. Being located this far south in the mountain range, this wash drains into the Pinto Basin, which forms the northeastern margin of the Joshua Tree National Park. This wedge of the mountains, north of the park boundary and south of the county line forms a dense concentration of mines and claims generally known as the Dale Mining District. Located 18 miles southeast of Twentynine Palms, miners were drawn to the area as early as 1881 by reports of gold in the Pinto Mountains. During its heyday, both lode and placer gold mining took place, and saw the birth and death of two mining camps – now the ghost towns of Old Dale and New Dale. By its peak production period in 1898 there were as many as 3,000 miners within this mining district. This intense influx of prospecting activity helped give local feature colorful
names, such as Fried Liver Wash and Humbug Mountains. Today, there is still intense activity, but it only occurs on the weekend when “treasure-seeking” clubs take forays to their prospecting claims.
Typical crowd of prospectors on a modern-day weekend up in the Dale Mining District Some people consider there to be two mining districts in this area, both of which are separated by a watershed: the Virginia Dale District to the north, and to the south of the watershed (which includes the San Bernardino Wash) is the Pinto Basin Mining District, comprising the Gold Crown, the Goldenrod, the Meek, the Mission, the Rusty Gold, and other smaller mines. It is the renewed interest in gold prospecting at these mines that has resulted in the inadvertent recovery of a number of stony meteorites. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that meteorites could be found in this area. After all, this is the portion of California meteorite history that was written by LaPaz and Nininger, which includes the Dale/Zulu Queen Mine (L3.7) and Pinto Mtns/Twentynine Palms (L6) meteorites; all found in these mining districts more than 50 years ago. That was the previous century. But starting this century, I began to hear rumors of other meteorites being found in these mining camps by prospectors, but I never could get first-hand corroboration. And on those rare occurrences when I would actually get to examine someone’s want-to-be “meteorite” specimen, it would always be hematite, or some other meteor-wrong. So, each time my hopes of finding a Zulu Queen Mine or Pinto Mountains strewn-field got dashed, I would be more and more convinced that all of these rumors were just wishful thinking. But then, around 2011, something happened. It was an eBay auction! It wasn’t anything special. It just simply stated, “California Meteorite – 35 grams” accompanied by a single image and a “guarantee”. The image was of good enough quality to get me to contact the Seller, where I confirmed that he was the finder and that he found it near Gold Crown Road. Well, long-story-short, I wasn’t the only one
that he found it near Gold Crown Road. Well, long-story-short, I wasn’t the only one watching this auction and I was out-bid by my friend and colleague, Jason Utas. In the end this wasn’t such a bad thing, because Jason did what I was planning on doing. He turned-in the specimen to UCLA to be classified and by February 2012, this specimen and several other stones were officially in the Meteoritical Bulletin. They are now collectively known as the San Bernardino Wash (L5) meteorite. The “write-up” that appeared in the Bulletin for this meteorite was very informative. (I wish that all entries into the Bulletin had this level of recovery information.) From that data, I learned that a number of stones had been recovered, and that several of them were found by Fred Mason. I knew Fred. We had hunted together at Franconia, Arizona. So I contacted Fred and asked him if he had any specimens still available. He told me that he had just shared his last available stone with another hunting partner. He could tell I was disappointed (his were the last stones available). Because he was unable to give me any leads as to where I could find another available stone, Fred, the kind gentleman that he is, offered to have me join him at his gold-claim and he would show me where he found his SBW specimens. It was a long-shot, but it was my last-chance. The next time that Fred went to his claim I met him at the Rusty Gold Mine, and he proceeded to give me a tour of where he found his placer gold and of where he found his meteorites. He suggested that I should focus my metal-detecting search on a particular outcrop where he had previously found some small fragments. It was his opinion that a stone from this fall had struck this granitic outcrop and had pulverized into many small pieces. I thanked Fred profusely for pointing me in the right direction, and I quickly took off while rapidly swinging my detector coil. But a meteorite wasn’t the only thing that struck this outcrop. There were many lead bullets that splattered against these rocks, as well. This outcrop appeard to have been used for target-practice. And it seemed like it would take me all day to clean this find location of all the artifact iron and lead bullets. But I figured that if there was this much man-made material left behind by all of the previous prospectors, then there was still a chance that a piece of the meteorite may have been missed. But by the end of the day, I had not (knowingly) found any meteorites, or gold. All I had to show for my efforts was a sandwich bag full of hot-rocks and iron/lead artifacts. But I did get introduced to a couple of Fred’s fellow nugget-shooters. Everyone I met was very keen to talk to me about gold prospecting, but they thought it curious that I was more interested in the “meteors” that they were inadvertently finding. Before leaving the Dale Mining District, I gave everyone that I met my card and expressed my interest in acquiring any of the meteorites that they would be willing to part with. I told Fred that I was very appreciative of his hospitality and for giving me permission to search for meteorites on his gold claim, as well as, for introducing me to his friends and partners. I told him that I look forward to returning and extending my search for meteorites out from the Dale area and into other portions of the Pinto Mountains. Now I need to explain what I meant when I wrote, “I had not (knowingly) found any meteorites”.
After I returned home from the hunt, I took the bag of hot-rocks and iron/lead artifacts, washed all the dirt off of them, lined them all up on a board, and photographed the entire collection before I examine each specimen under a microscope. That was when I discovered that one of the “pieces of rust� was actually a fine-pebble-sized chondrite. (You can see what I saw through my microscope in the image below.)
Results of my day-one metal-detecting at the Fred Mason find location (One of these is the meteorite fragment depicted in the image below)
San Bernardino Wash (L5) – Riverside County, CA Luckily, when I first metal-detected this “sandy rust-ball” I didn’t waste time in the field grinding a window into it, because now I had enough mass to actually saw-off a sample to make a thin-section and still have a type-specimen remaining. I went to the trouble of doing this so that I could get a petrologic microscope examination in order to attempt a visual-pairing of this find to the Fred Mason find, and hence to the San Bernardino Wash (L5) type-specimen, which would corroborate Fred’s find and confirm the existence of this strewn-field. It would also help this effort to acquire more finds. The positive results obtained from the optical examination prompted me to do just that. Soon, I was making a return trip to the San Bernardino Wash.
Cheap, hastily made thin-section for visual-pairing purposes of my specimen from the Fred Mason find locality.
Close-up. This thin-section was visually-paired to the SBW(L5) type-specimen at UCLA, which corroborates the Fred Mason find location and the existence of a strewn-field.
Topographic Map : San Bernardino Wash – Riverside County, CA The continual gold prospecting with metal detectors has inadvertently resulted in the recovery of additional chondritic stones. None of these subsequent finds can be considered as whole stones. They are all fragments, and in clusters, suggestive of the falling stones “splattering” upon contact with the rocky ground. Although in proximity with each other, some fragments appear to be much less weathered than the majority of finds, indicating a very micro-environment controlling the weathering of some fragments. So, in order to prove that these “less weathered” fragments were not xenolithic to the strewnfield, two specimens were sampled, thin-sectioned, micro-probed, and characterized. The results proved that these specimens were paired to San Bernardino Wash (L5)- see images below for comparison.
San Bernardino Wash (L5 S1 W3 Fa24.0+/-0.2% n=24) – Riverside Co., CA
San Bernardino Wash (L5 S2 W1 Fa23.8+/-0.4% n=14) – Riverside Co., CA
Although there were some variations in weathering grade (W1-W3)and even less in shock stage (S1-S2), all of the SBW fragments found in this study had a common characteristic, that of being friable and of having a porous groundmass. In other words, when specimens were cut with a saw blade, the cut surface would show where many grains and chondrules had been plucked-away. It was too difficult to attempt to grind and polish a cut surface. This stood in contrast to my Pinto Mountains specimen which displayed a more recrystallized (less friable) groundmass, and chondrules that were more equilibrated with the matrix. Although not necessarily a part of this study, but for completeness, a sample of my Pinto Mountains specimen was thin-sectioned and characterized, as well – see table below for comparison. The following meteorite specimens were characterized by Dr. Alan Rubin, UCLA: San Bernardino Wash –(L5 S2 W1 Fa23.8+/-0.4% n=14)– 2012B find Pinto Mountains –
(L6 S3 W1 Fa23.8+/-0.3% n=16; low-Ca pyroxene Fs20.3Wo1.5 n=17)
– 1955 stone
San Bernardino Wash –
(L5 S2 W3 Fa24.6+/-0.6% n=7) — (UCLA typespecimen)
– 2010 stone
San Bernardino Wash –
(L5 S1 W3 Fa24.0+/-0.2% n=24)
– 2012A find
– IMAGE GALLERY – Part-slices from the “W1″ fragment:
San Bernardino Wash (L5 S2 W1 ) – Riverside Co., CA
San Bernardino Wash (L5 S2 W1 ) – Riverside Co., CA In conclusion, here are a few images of some recent finds from this, now, better appreciated strewn-field (see below):
– IMAGE GALLERY – Some recently found stones from the “strewn-field”:
Ordinary Chondrite – San Bernardino Wash (L5) – Riverside Co., CA
Ordinary Chondrite – San Bernardino Wash (L5) – Riverside Co., CA
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Ordinary Chondrite – San Bernardino Wash (L5) – Riverside Co., CA
Ordinary Chondrite – San Bernardino Wash (L5) – Riverside Co., CA
Blossoms symbolize a fruitful future for meteorite hunters in the coming year 2014. Hope you enjoyed the images! There may be more information forthcoming about this meteorite, at a later time – if more are found. References: San Bernardino Wash in Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for San Bernardino Wash Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 46, in preparation (2013). Any and all meteorite classifications that appear in this article are courtesy of Dr. Alan Rubin, UCLA. The image at the top of this article is a view of the Rusty Gold Mine claim, which is just one of many active claims in the San Bernardino Wash area. All of these are “placer & hardrock gold claims”, and even though meteorites can’t be included in a gold claim (because they are “non-relocateable”)there is no way to distinguish between metal-detecting for meteorites (which is allowed) from metal detecting for gold (which requires permission from the claim-holder)! This article in no way suggests prospecting on a claim without permission. For more information, see BLM Land Use Policy.) My previous articles can be found *HERE*
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Meteorite Times Magazine Dhofar 008 L3.3 by John Kashuba In thin section under the microscope it is easy to see that the components of Dhofar 008 L3.3 underwent several episodes of processing before their final assembly and delivery to earth. We see it in layered features and in the presence of enveloping compound chondrules. Enveloping compound chondrules have one or more chondrules completely enclosed in another. With enveloping compound chondrules the enclosed chondrules obviously had to form before the chondrule into which it became incorporated. In another class of compound chondrules adhering chondrules became attached when molten or still-plastic chondrules impacted and stuck to already solid chondrules. Sibling Compound Chondrules are adhering chondrules with similar textures and compositions. Independent Compound Chondrules are adhering chondrules with different textures and compositions. Returning to enveloping chondrules, if the interior and the enclosing chondrules are of the same type it can be difficult to discern the existence of the compound situation. Fortunately here we have barred olivine (BO) chondrules in porphyritic olivine pyroxene (POP) chondrules. The textural differences stand out. Further, BO chondrules are often single skeletal crystals that go to optical extinction all at once. This, too, highlights their presence in POP chondrules when the polarizing filters are rotated.
A BO chondrule, upper left, is enveloped in a large chondrule. There is a fragment of a radial pyroxene chondrule attached on the right. Dhofar 008 L3.3, thin section in cross-polarized light.
Here the BO chondrule is nearly in optical extinction.
A close-up of the BO chondrule.
A close-up with the BO chondrule in extinction – except for some recrystallized material interstitial to the olivine bars.
At the edge of the specimen, a BO chondrule enveloped by a POP chondrule. Dhofar 008 L3.3, thin section in cross-polarized light.
With the BO chondrule in extinction.
Appearing blue, a BO chondrule within and making up the bulk of a POP chondrule. Dhofar 008 L3.3, thin section in cross-polarized light.
The BO chondrule shows up best when in optical extinction.
Sibling compound barred olivine chondrules in Dhofar 008 L3.3. Thin section in crosspolarized light.
A small assemblage of mineral grains surrounded by very fine mineral grains all enclosed in a dust blanket. Dhofar 008 L3.3, thin section in cross-polarized light.
Several episodes of accretion and heating formed this beautifully layered feature. Dhofar 008 L3.3, thin section in cross-polarized light.
Meteorite Times Magazine An Aussie Flanged Button Too Good to be True! by Norm Lehrman
About 10 years ago I was approached by a guy that had just inherited a tektite collection that he wanted to liquidate. Included were about 20 Australite flanged buttons. Working from a photo, I selected about half of them and we made a deal. When they arrived I was astounded. They were better than any I had ever seen before. I realized that I had not paid anywhere near enough for them, and I immediately began to compose an email to the seller offering to double what I had paid. I found myself writing that they were just too good to be true— As those loaded words scrolled across my cerebral cortex, alarms started sounding. After a career of evaluating mining properties, I had encountered “too good to be true” enough times to know to pay attention. I picked up a knife to test the hardness of one of the buttons. It was plastic!
This led directly to some radical changes in my email wording! As it turned out, this was not a case of fraudulent misrepresentation. The seller, who was not at all knowledgeable about tektites, was mortified and wanted to make things right. Going back to the photos that he had originally supplied, I could see that most of those that I had not selected had obvious imperfections—chips, sand and dirt in the recesses, and less than perfect form. We adjusted the deal to obtain those, and they all proved to be real, and well worth the money. On further investigation, we learned that the deceased party had been a curator at the Smithsonian. Apparently they had obtained quality casts of some of the finest flanged buttons ever found. I returned all but one to the seller. The pictures accompanying this article are of that superb piece. Somewhere, probably in a major museum collection, the original specimen is out there. (Let me know if you recognize it.) This quality cast has proven to be a useful part of our collection. It illustrates all of the best features of a world-class flanged button and I can pass it around a room full of kids without fear— Whenever I show it, I tell this story and use it to reinforce that immensely great life lesson, that applies to tektites, emeralds, human beings and most everything else on earth: “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!”
Meteorite Times Magazine LEEDEY Meteorite by Anne Black The Leedey meteorite fell in the evening of November 25, 1943 in western Oklahoma. The story of its recovery tells marvelously well how the traveling conditions and the communications have changed in the last 70 years. It is also a marvelous example of collaboration between the two best known meteorites hunters of the time: Oscar Monnig and Harvey Nininger. And no one can tell it better than Oscar Monnig himself. This report has apparently never been published and has been in Dr. Elhmann’s private records all these years. So I will let him introduce it:
The Leedey meteorite was thus recovered quickly but then it had to wait. Was it due to pre-occupation with World War Two or could it be that Mr. Monnig was too busy managing the family stores, we don’t know. The meteorite was quickly described in the 1950s by Nininger but it was not analyzed until the 1970s and was finally published in the Meteoritical Bulletin in 1997, with this map of the strewn field.
Map published in Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, 1997
This picture was also in Dr. Ehlmann’s papers and it does show the main mass of the Leedey meteorite, however there is no note as to who the car belonged to. Could it be the car that Harvey Nininger was driving when he went to pick up Mr. Monnig?
As per their prior agreement to divide anything they would find equally between the two of them, Oscar Monnig and Harvey Nininger split the main mass of 20.4 kilos right down the middle, half of it is now proudly displayed in Monnig Meteorite Gallery, in the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The other half was acquired by Arizona State University along with most of Nininger’s meteorite collection in 1961.
Photo by Geoff Notkin / Š Oscar Monnig Meteorite Collection
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“Miss of the Desert� from the Wadi & Woreczko Meteorites Collection, Copyright www.woreczko.pl. Submit Pictures to Meteorite Pictures of the Day
Meteorite Times Magazine World Class 401.7 Gram Darwin Glass by Daniel Sutherland by Editor This amazing specimen is considered one of the largest specimens outside of a museum and the second or third largest known. This impact glass was the product of a meteorite or comet impact 816,000 years ago forming Darwin Crater located south of Queenstown in West Coast, Tasmania.
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